Moonee Ponds Creek
| Moonee Ponds Creek | ||
 Moonee Pond Creek as a storm drain in Brunswick West |
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| Data | ||
| location | Victoria , Australia | |
| River system | Yarra River | |
| Drain over | Yarra River → Port Phillip Bay → Bass Strait | |
| source | Gellibrand Hill (North Melbourne ) 37 ° 36 ′ 37 ″ S , 144 ° 52 ′ 17 ″ E |
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| Source height | 132 m | |
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Yarra River Coordinates: 37 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E 37 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | 132 m | |
| Bottom slope | 4.3 ‰ | |
| length | 30.5 km | |
| Big cities | Melbourne | |
| Communities | Greenvale | |
The Moonee Ponds Creek is a creek in the south of the Australian state of Victoria . It is a major tributary of the Yarra River and flows through the northern suburbs and downtown Melbourne .
In its upper reaches it flows through farmland near Greenvale and the basalt plains at Woodlands Historic Park , which connects to Melbourne Airport to the north. Near the mouth , the creek is dammed by tertiary caps in Essendon and Royal Park before flowing into the Yarra River.
In this heavily urbanized area, Moonee Ponds Creek serves as a rainwater drainage channeled into a concrete bed .
It winds through the neighborhoods of Westmeadows , Meadow Heights , Tullamarine , Broadmeadows , Gowanbrae , Glenroy , Strathmore Heights , Oak Park , Strathmore , Pascoe Vale , Pascoe Vale South , Essendon , Brunswick West , Moonee Ponds , Ascot Vale , Flemington , Parkville and North Melbourne (where its artificially extended bed is called 'Railway Canal') and finally flows into the Yarra River at Docklands.
history
Before it was settled by European immigrants, Moonee Ponds Creek was the home of the Wurundjeri , an Aboriginal tribe of the Kulin . While there are no written records from this period, it is likely that the creek was named Moonee Moonee after an Aboriginal man who, along with Tullamareena , a tribal elder, burned down Melbourne's first prison in 1838 and escaped. The Port Phillip area was first settled by Europeans in 1835. The first land was sold at Strathmore on Moonee Ponds Creek in 1843 and 1845.
The stream formed a series of swampy ponds in the stream floodplain , with extensive salt marshes formed near the confluence with the Yarra River , which were called Batman's Lagoon . Due to the stormy development of Melbourne during the gold rush in Victoria in the 1850s, the swamp soon became a catchment basin for the sewage from Flemington, North Melbourne and Parkville.
In 1879, Batman's Lagoon was drained and backfilled to make way for the North Melbourne Railway Depot at its northern end. The southern end of the infilled salt marshes was soon called 'Dudley Flats'. There stole the impoverished urban population during the Great Depression in the 1930s, building material for their homes from the landfill.
In the 1890s, the lower reaches of Moonee Ponds Creek was used as a canal for the transport of coal for the locomotives.
Between 1940 and the 1980s, the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works - now Melbourne Water - straightened and channeled the creek from Strathmore to Flemington Road to prevent seasonal flooding. These changes were part of an extensive urban development of the lower Bachaue. For most of its course through the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Moonee Ponds Creek is now a rainwater runoff in a concrete bed that runs parallel to the Tullamarine Freeway .
In 1998, the Moonee Ponds Creek Co-ordination Committee, Inc. (MPCCC) was established to oversee the planning, restoration, training, and policy and practice development to improve the protection of Moonee Ponds Creek and its tributaries. The MPCCC includes the four LGA parliaments of Hume City , Moreland City , Moonee Valley City and Melbourne City , as well as the Friends of Moonee Ponds Creek . The MPCCC also has excellent relationships with Melbourne Water , Parks Victoria , the Department of Sustainability , the Department of Primary Industries and the Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority .
In 2004 a reporter for The Age newspaper described the creek as "proven to be the most abused tributary of the Yarra River and part of Melbourne's real underground".
Renaturation and preservation
In recent years there have been some improvements that have focused on expanding the habitat and stabilizing, re-establishing and replanting the creek banks. In 2005 the water quality, aquatic life and drainage were classified as “bad”, the condition of the vegetation as “very bad” and the habitat and stability as “good”.
In the course of 2004 a larger rainwater collection program was carried out in the catchment area of the stream, wetlands were created in Jacana and flotsam traps were built. Recent habitat conservation work has resulted in some wildlife returning to the creek, such as the pobblebonk frog at Strathmore Secondary College and the rare red-backed heron in the upper reaches.
Along the banks of Moonee Ponds Creek, from Docklands in Melbourne to Woodlands Homestead in Woodlands Historic Park, there is a combined foot and bike path, the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail , which connects various sanctuaries, parks and sports facilities along the stream.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map of Moonee Ponds Creek, VIC . Bonzle.com
- ↑ Woodlands Historic Park ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
